Play Link; Record Link; Hdcd™ Link - Mark Levinson 383 Owner's Manual

button will toggle between switching digital inputs vs. switching analog
inputs; simply clicking the button moves you to the next input in the
bank of inputs currently being controlled.
Note that for Select Linking to work, you must have named the associ-
ated digital processor properly to match the appropriate name from the
Name List. Thus a Nº30.6 should be named ; a Nº360S should
No30.6
be named , and so forth.
No360S
Placing your Mark Levinson transport in will activate both the

play link

play
corresponding Mark Levinson digital processor and the Nº383 if either
or both is in . In addition, the appropriate inputs will be se-
standby
lected on the digital processor and on the Nº383 (specifically, the input
which has an name of a Mark Levinson digital processor, such as
, or ).
Nº30.6 No360S No39
Similarly, activating a Linked Mark Levinson digital processor will se-
lect the appropriate input on the Nº383 (should you be using the pro-
cessor with an unlinked DAT machine, for example).
Placing the Nº383 into while your Mark Levinson digital au-

record link

standby
dio processor is in mode and a Mark Levinson transport is in
record
Record Link mode will cause a warning to be displayed on the digital
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component. Both digital components will be prevented from going
into without explicit confirmation at those components that
standby
this is what you desire. In this way, inadvertent interruption of a digital
recording in process can be avoided.
After changing any of the Linked functions, cycle power on the Nº383
and the other components to ensure that they take effect.
Linked Mark Levinson digital processors will implement the required
HDCD™ link
six decibel change in volume for HDCD recordings in the Nº383 auto-
matically if they are both properly Linked and if their name has been
set to match the appropriate name from the Name List. Thus a Nº30.6
should be named ; a Nº360S should be named , and
No30.6 No360S
so forth.
In fact, as long as the first four characters are correct, even custom
names will be recognized and operate properly. For example, you could
refer to a and it would still be recognized as a member of the
No30xyz
Nº30 family. (Though why you would want to do so remains a mystery.)